UNICEF/Prashanth Vishwanatha | A teacher in India leads an awareness class about menstrual and general hygiene to her students. (file) Every month, nearly two billion women and girls menstruate, but during times of war and climate disasters, from the conflict in Gaza to the devastation caused by Cyclone Remal in Asia, UN humanitarian teams rush to serve […]
Last Thursday we welcomed our UNAA National President Dr Donnell Davis & UNAA Secretary Susan McHattie for a roundtable debrief of the 68th session of the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York. This session covered the theme of “Accelerating the achievement of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls by addressing […]
UN Photo/Eric Kanalstein | Women parliamentarians of the Afghan Lower House (Wolesi Jirga or “House of the People”) arrive at their inauguration ceremony in Kabul (2001). The proportion of women parliamentarians worldwide reached more than 25 per cent last year– a historic first but still far from gender parity, UN partner the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) […]
Over two billion people around the world watched the Women’s World Cup Final in August, and tucked away on the left coast of the Tigris River in Mosul, Iraq, a group of teenage girls and their families scoured the internet to find streaming sites to catch the game. The screening was fuzzy, but the vision […]
Today is World Population Day, which aims to shed light on population issues facing the globe. Secretary-General António Guterres has released a message addressing these issues and this year’s theme.
UNAMA/Farzana Zeba Kalam/An Afghan girl snatches a moment away from her watermelon selling duties to work on her homework The draconian restrictions on women’s ability to study and work have contributed to the calamitous socio-economic situation in Afghanistan, with devastating consequences for the population, according to a UN report released on Tuesday. The Afghanistan Socio-Economic Outlook […]